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HomeMy WebLinkAbout70-55 - Urging Newport Freeway Construction from Palisades to Pacific Coast Highway93 RESOLUTION NO. 70-55 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS TO C0114ENCE CONSTRUCTION AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE ON THE NEWPORT BEACH FREEWAY FROM PALISADES AVENUE TO THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: THAT WHEREAS, the City of Costa Mesa has undertaken a community redevelopment study preliminary to undertaking a redevelopment of its older business section in the City of Costa Mesa also known as the "Downtown Area"; and WHEREAS, said study is being conducted with the aim to taking advantage of Division 24, Part 1, Sections 33000 through and including 33673 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California, popularly known as the "Community Redevelopment Law"; and WHEREAS, the City of Costa Mesa has committed itself by contract for the initial expenditure of $50,000.00 for said study which said sum cannot be recouped unless and until a redevelopment project is undertaken; and WHEREAS, the proposed study and redevelopment area encompasses an area to be bisected by the Newport Beach Freeway routing as the same was revised from Bay Street through Costa Mesa, down Superior Avenue to the Coast Highway; and WHEREAS, the redevelopment plan, its theme, priorities of property acquisition, zoning, traffic circulation, street planning and construction, and all business relocations as to be determined by the plan and the project are all interdependent upon the Newport Beach Freeway routing; and WHEREAS, the entire community redevelopment plan and projects to be developed thereunder, to be practical and economically accomplished must be closely coordinated with the construction of the Newport Beach Freeway within said community redevelopment area; and WHEREAS, under said community redevelopment plan, the consultants have completed the preliminary general plan and will have the final general plan completed by July 1, 1970, being about 1/3 completed in their full study; and WHEREAS, the entire city will be affected by the proposed community redevelopment project in Costa Mesa, including those areas outside the established development area, including but not necessarily limited to major revisions in the City master plan, major revisions in the City master plan of parks and playgrounds, major revisions in the City master plan of streets and highways; and WHEREAS, the City Government of the City of Costa Mesa has a strong legal and moral obligation to its citizens, its land owners, its businessmen and all other interested persons to urge the continued free enterprise development of all of Costa Mesa in order to avoid economic stagnation and blited areas; and WHEREAS, the immediate construction of the Newport Beach Freeway for the section mentioned heretofore is absolutely essential to continued economic progress and development within this city; and WHEREAS, increased traffic generated by the widening of the Newport Beach Freeway from the Santa Ana Freeway to Palisades Avenue and the further increased traffic from the San Diego Freeway, the Riverside Freeway and the Santa Ana Freeway have caused and will cause completely unmanageable traffic conditions unless the Newport Beach Freeway is constructed forthwith to act as a conduit for the flow of said traffic through the City of Costa Mesa and particularly through its community redevelopment area; and WHEREAS, the Newport Beach Freeway Route was adopted and finalized 1 in 1946 and for 24 years has been undeveloped and virtually ignored and now it must be immediately considered. +i NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Department of Public Works for the State of California, Division of Highways, be strongly urged to revise priorities in order to place the construction of the Newport Freeway from Palisades Avenue to Highway 101 at the top of its job list; that all necessary right of way be obtained at the earliest possible date; that construction plans be immediately finalized and that construction begin immediately thereafter. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Department of Public Works, Division of Highways, Chairman of the California Highway Commission, to the State Highway Engineer, to each of the Assemblymen and Senators representing the citizens of the City of Costa Mesa in Sacramento, to the Director of Division 7 in Los Angeles, and to such other persons as the City Council may determine in open meeting at the time of action upon this resolution. BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the staff of the City of Costa Mesa be directed and authorized to take whatever steps are available within the policy established by the City Council to further the action expressed by this resolution. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22nd day of June, 1970. Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa ATTEST: City Clerk of the City of Costa Me a STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF COSTA MESA ) I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 70-55 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting thereof held on the 22nd day of June, 1970. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa, this 23rd day of June, 1970. J G City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk�the City Council of the City of Costo Mesa